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<p>Brussels, Biblioth&egrave;que royale 8558-63 (Catalogue number 2498) is a three-part manuscript comprising
the following six shelfmarks: </p>
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8558, 8559, fol. 1-77v (= Part A, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rule of
Chrodegang</span> in Latin, with OE
glosses);<br/>
8560, 8561, fol. 77v-131v (= Part B, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Penitential of Pseudo-Theodore</span> with
contemporary interlinear OE gloss); <br/>
8562, 8563, fol. 132r-153v (= Part C: see below).</p>
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<p>Part A is tenth century (ff. 1-79); Gneuss: s. x 1; S. England or Mercia <br/>
Part B: tenth century (ff. 80-131); Gneuss: s. x<sup>med</sup>;<br/>
Part C: eleventh century, first half (ff. 132-39, 149-53); early twelfth century (f. 140r)<br/>
Catalogue numbers: Ker #10:  Glosses, penitential collections; Gneuss # 808.
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<p><a href="mschbx85.html">Table 1</a> shows the content of the manuscript by folio.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dimensions</span>: Ker's description including the following for Part C, ff. 132-53: 
Size: c. 210 x 150 mm; written space c. 175 x 115 mm. 25 long lines (ff. 140-53; compare 23
long lines, ff. 132-39). </br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Condition:</span> stains: 132v, 133r-b, 134v, 136r, 139rv, 144v, 145r; holes: 136rv, 140rv-144rv,
146rv-153rv</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Decoration:</span> crayon/pencil foliation, modern hand; structure markers: include numerous red and orange "ALIA" in the right-hand margin; some red
and orange incipits; ornamental capitals; paragraphs; blanks; rubrication; columns;
incipits/explicits; indentations; and brackets. The ruling is dry-point. Ker notes that in fol. 132-39 the first letter of a sentence is filled with color (Ker, p. 9). Art. 3 in brown ink, Arts. 1 and 2 in  black ink.</p>
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The manuscript presents potential evidence of a self-contained handbook of penance. The
<span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Handbook</span> occupies fol. 132r-139v, a quire with two half-sheets. Fol. 132r
shows
excessive wear (fading, stains) and there are stains throughout this section of the manuscript,
suggesting that it might have formed a booklet without a cover. Fol 139v breaks off
mid-sentence,
and approximately 22 lines are missing from the end of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Handbook</span>. Ker
suggests that possibly a quire is missing, although only two sections of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE
Handbook</span> (55.17.01, 55, 18.01) are lacking. The missing material, whether a few leaves
or a quire, might well have formed a single booklet whose first leaf was fol. 132r. The leaves
that
held the completion of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Handbook</span> might well have contained additional
penitential material, and if so, this would have made a self-contained penitential handbook. </p>
<p>
The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Edgar</span> is found on fol. 140r. The fourth book of the
OEP begin on fol. 140v. Although it seems unlikely that it was copied after the text on 140r, it is
not clear why 140r would have been left blank. The end of the fourth book of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE
Penitential</span> is also defective. Ker says that this gap is due to a textual lacuna, not to a
missing leaf or leaves. (See the description of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Penitential</span> for more details.)
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Ff. 132-53 are two quires of 8 leaves (ff. 134, 137 are half-sheets), followed by quire of 8,
wanting 7, 8, probably blank (Ker, p. 9). From fol. 90 to end of manuscript, with fol. 90
beginning
Quire 1:<br/>
1-8 (90-97); 2-8 (98-104 [103, 103B]; 3-8 (105-12); 4-8 (113-20); 5-4 (121-24); 6-7 (125-31;
defective at 129-130); 7-8 (132-39; 134, 137 half sheets); 8-8 (140-47); 9-8, wants 7-8 (148-53).

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Art. 1 (ff. 132-39): hand of s. xi; Art. 2 (ff. 140v-53):  hand of same date; Art 3 (fol. 140r):  "poor
sloping hand of earlier part of s. xii (brown ink).</p>
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Seven hands are distinguished in markup:<br/>
Hand 1= first main hand of MS (copied <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Handbook</span>)<br/>
Hand 2 = 2nd Anglo-Saxon hand, hand of corrections and additions to OEH (but not <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE
Penitential</span> or the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Theodore</span>)<br/>
Hand 3 = first modern hand, pencil, numerated canons <br/>
Hand 4 = second modern hand, also in pencil <br/>
Hand 5 = second main hand (copied <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Penitential</span> or the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of
Theodore</span>)<br/>
Hand 6 = possibly a later Anglo-Saxon hand, darker than Hand 2; responsible for corrections to
<span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Penitential</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Theodore</span>)<br/>
Hand 7 = early 12th century hand of fol. 140r <br/>
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Punctuation 140r is midline. The period . and &amp; are separated on 139v and elsewhere, but often this appears as a point
within the &amp; see 132r at 51.01 on line . below line.
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<p>Signs of correction: ( .  transposition marks, e.g. fol. 153r, 2nd line. Erasures are extensive. Where the erased content can be read, even partially, the letters (or letter) appear within a "delete" tag that displays the erased content in teal, with a note following.
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Color is very much complicated by wear and fading.  I distinguish black, red, and orange. The
first use of orange is on fol. 140v. All initials 140v ff. in margin, "outdented." 
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Abbreviations & suspensions:
.l. expanded as <expan>o&eth;&eth;e</expan>; .p. = preost; .b. = bisceop.

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OE Handbook</span>:<br/>
8562:  <br/>
     132r-132v.  Incipt ordo confessionis.  Handbook 1. <br/>
     132v-137v.  &ETH;at sceal ge&thorn;encean man.  Handbook III.  <br/>
     137v-138v.  Be synna lacnunge.  Handbook V.  <br/>
     138v.  Be l&aelig;wedra manna d&aelig;dbota, Handbook V.<br/>
     138v-139v.  Be d&aelig;dbotum.  Handbook V.<br/>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Edgar</span>:<br/>
8563: 140r, blank originally, text added in early 12th century. For the text, see Fowler,
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Edgar</span>, EETS 266, 
Appendix 2, p. 21. Sections here parallel <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Edgar</span> 68b and the
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Northumbrian
Priests' Law</span> 25, 8, 10.1 and 2, 12, 13. (Marked as B92.01.01-B92.07.02 in database; not translated.)<br/>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Penitential</span>:<br/> 
8563:     140r-145r  OE Penitential ed. Raith, Book IV. <br/>

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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Introduction</span>:<br/>
8563:     145r-146r  Introduction, Part 4b.
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Theodore</span>:<br/>
8563:     146r-146v <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sanctus Gregorius</span>, included in Raith's edition of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE
Penitential</span> as "Anhang 1."<br/>
146v-153v  <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Theodore</span>, ed. Mone.<br/>


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8558:  1r-38r. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Liber canonice regule </span> (Chrodegang, ed. Migne)</p>
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8559:  38r-77v.  <span style="font-weight: bold;">Soliloquiorum liber beati</span>, Augustine (ed. Migne)</p><p>
8560:  77v-79v.  <span style="font-weight: bold;">S. Agustinus De igne purgatoriu</span> (ed. Migne)</p><p>
8561:  80r-131v.  <span style="font-weight: bold;">Poenitentiale Pseudo-Theodori</span> (VII-XXX), ed. Wasserschleben,
pp.
566-624</p><p>
8563:  153r.  <span style="font-weight: bold;">Clemens papa (Decretales Ps. Isidore 27)</span></p>

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<p>This <a href="mschbx85.html">table</a> contains a list of chapters by folio.
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